Nothing to do with Agatha Christie (unfortunately). This is a plodding science-fiction story that would have been barely passable as one of those filler stories they used to put in the back of a comic book when I was a schoolboy.

Space explorers land on a strange planet and are attacked by giant spiders, giant lizards, giant ants.... you get the picture. The story drags to its predictable "surprise ending" after 50 excruciating minutes. The whole plot could have been summed up in a single Far Side cartoon.

It's unbelievable that Ted Sherdeman also wrote one of my favorite 1950s monster movies Them!. Even the best of us have bad days._________________tuned in from down under

Nothing to do with Agatha Christie (unfortunately). This is a plodding science-fiction story that would have been barely passable as one of those filler stories they used to put in the back of a comic book when I was a schoolboy.

Space explorers land on a strange planet and are attacked by giant spiders, giant lizards, giant ants.... you get the picture. The story drags to its predictable "surprise ending" after 50 excruciating minutes. The whole plot could have been summed up in a single Far Side cartoon.

It's unbelievable that Ted Sherdeman also wrote one of my favorite 1950s monster movies Them!. Even the best of us have bad days.

I remember listening to it on our local NPR affiliate back in the early '80s. I'm thinking it was a contemporary production at the time, which might make copyright a little dicey and thus explain its scarcity.

I remember listening to it on our local NPR affiliate back in the early '80s. I'm thinking it was a contemporary production at the time, which might make copyright a little dicey and thus explain its scarcity.